Even worse, she has been estranged from her father and one of her closest friends, leading to an existential loneliness that she masks with dry, cynical wit.Īfter familiarizing readers with the ins and outs of life on the moon - class structures continue to remain quite rigid in Weir's version of the futuristic colony, although race relations have somewhat improved - the story kicks into gear when an entrepreneur offers Bashara an opportunity to become a millionaire with a single act of corporate sabotage. Although Bashara has dreams of making good money at a legitimate job, the story opens with her scraping out a meager living as a smuggler and hustler.

'Artemis' tells the story of Jazz Bashara, a young woman whose family immigrated to the lunar colony of Artemis from Saudi Arabia when she was a little girl. The stories for both novels are on the cutting edge of sober science fiction - taking seemingly fantastical premises, like a man stranded on Mars or a small city on the moon, and grounding them by ensuring as much scientific plausibility as possible. ' Artemis' was penned by Andy Weir, the same man who authored ' The Martian,' the 2011 novel which later became a critically acclaimed film, garnering seven Academy Award nominations, including a Best Actor nod for star Matt Damon, and is director Ridley Scott's highest-grossing film to date. Not since the days of Michael Crichton has a novel so clearly been waiting to be adapted to the big screen. It's not like I'm going out on a limb by saying that - Fox and New Regency have already acquired the movie rights to the novel (out Tuesday from Crown), and it was smart of them to do so.

Hell yes, 'Artemis' should be made into a movie.

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